No matter who wins the White House on Tuesday, the next president is likely to enter office under the threat of investigation by the rival party. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are both deeply polarizing figures unlikely to enjoy a period of goodwill from the other side of the aisle. Multiple Republicans this week have predicted impeachment could be on the table if Clinton wins, a possibility Trump has mentioned in a late effort to boost his bid for the White House. And while Republicans are likely to control at least one chamber of Congress next year, Democrats would almost certainly…

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton leads Republican nominee Donald Trump by 9 points in Pennsylvania, according to a new Suffolk University poll. In a head-to-head matchup, Clinton has 50 percent support and Trump has 41 percent support among likely general-election voters in the battleground state. Another 8 percent are undecided. In a four-way matchup, including Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, Clinton still holds a 9-point lead over Trump, 46 to 37 percent. Johnson takes 5 percent and Stein takes 3 percent. Another 9 percent are undecided. In the four-way matchup, Clinton led by 19 points…

Costa Rica will offer temporary protection to refugees fleeing Central America for the US, the Obama administration announced on Tuesday, following an admission by officials of its failure to address the surge in refugees fleeing violence, rape and kidnappings. “Our current efforts to date have been insufficient to address the number of people who may have legitimate refugee claims,” said Amy Pope, deputy homeland security adviser, in a press call on Tuesday morning. Central Americans from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala have fled their countries in their thousands. As violence in the Northern Triangle spiked in 2015, the number of…

Bernie Sanders will on Monday urge supporters to consider how “far superior” Hillary Clinton is to the alternative, as Democrats seek to defuse outbreaks of tension at the start of their four-day national convention in Philadelphia. Debbie Wasserman Schultz to resign as DNC chair as email scandal rocks Democrats Read more In a crucial opening night address to delegates, the Vermont senator will appear alongside first lady Michelle Obama as the party seeks a display of unity in contrast with Republican infighting in Cleveland last week. The star-studded convention got off to a rocky start on Sunday, when Democratic National…

David Cameron said being prime minister had been “the greatest honour” of his life as he prepared to formally resign. Flanked by his wife and children in Downing Street, he said the UK was “much stronger” than when he took over. He then went to Buckingham Palace to tender his resignation to the Queen, who will then formally appoint Theresa May as his replacement. Earlier Mr Cameron took PMQs for the final time, telling MPs he would “miss the roar of the crowd”. After taking office, Mrs May, the home secretary, will set about naming her own frontbench team. Rolling…

A new poll has good news for Donald Trump in the swing states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Trump is either slightly ahead or tied with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in those three key battlegrounds, according to a Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll released Wednesday. “He has wiped out Hillary Clinton’s lead in Florida; is on the upside of too-close to call races in Florida and Pennsylvania and is locked in a dead heat in Ohio,” said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll. The numbers, according to Quinnipiac: One possible reason for Clinton’s drop: her use of private email…

By Devin Henry – 07/07/16 11:59 AM EDT Last month was the hottest June on record in the United States, federal researchers announced Thursday. The average temperature in June was 71.8 degrees Fahrenheit in the contiguous United States — 3.3 degrees above the 20th-century average. It was the hottest June in the U.S. since record keeping began in January 1895, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported, breaking the previous record set in 1933 by 0.2 degrees.The first six months of 2016 were the third-warmest on record in the United States, the agency reported. Every state in the country…

By Julian Hattem – 07/07/16 10:58 AM EDT FBI Director James Comey on Thursday rejected the argument from Republicans that the mishandling of classified information by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was worse than the abuses committed by former CIA Director David Petraeus. Despite “great carelessness,” Clinton never gave off signs that she intentionally violated the law through the use of a series of email servers housed in the basement of her New York home, Comey testified before the House Oversight Committee. But Petraeus clearly did show evidence of intentionally violating the law, Comey said. Not only was Petraeus…

LONDON — Britain joined the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 despite flawed intelligence, “wholly inadequate” planning and no imminent threat from Iraq’s then-leader Saddam Hussein, a long-awaited inquiry concluded Wednesday. The 12-volume, 2.6-million-word report took seven years to complete and was highly critical of formerPrime Minister Tony Blair, but it stopped short of accusing him of going to war illegally. John Chilcot, the retired British government official who led the inquiry, told a news conference in the British capital that “the U.K. chose to join the invasion of Iraq before the peaceful options for disarmament had been exhausted. Military action at that time was not a…